The story of Diary Of A Madman is often overshadowed by what happened next. The years after its release were peak-Ozzy Osbourne. These were the years that made him notorious – where he was in the tabloids as much as the music press – and where his offstage behaviour threatened to become more famous than his music.
Like the time Ozzy bit the head off a dove at a record company meeting. (He had planned to release the doves in a dramatic gesture but, bored by the meeting, and discovering that one of the doves had died, he bit its head off and spat it on the table. Meeting adjourned.)
